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Human brain high-resolution diffusion MRI with optimized slice-by-slice B0 field shimming in head-only high-performance gradient MRI systems
ArXiv.org
Cornell University
10/04/2025
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2510.03586
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to propose a brain tissue-selective, optimized slice-by-slice B0 field shimming for high-resolution brain diffusion MRI. We incorporated actual gradient fields of X, Y, and Z gradient coils in the calculation of the shimming coefficients in dynamic slice-by-slice B0 field shimming to minimize B0 field inhomogeneity (i.e., Delta B0) in deep-learning segmented brain tissues. Diffusion MRI with oscillating gradient spin echo (OGSE) at 55 Hz and pulsed gradient spin echo (PGSE) (approximated at 0 Hz) were obtained in phantoms and healthy volunteers using a head-only high-performance gradient 3T MRI system. In each diffusion MRI acquisition, standard static volumetric shimming and the proposed shimming method were applied separately, and mean/axial/radial diffusivities (MD/AD/RD) and fractional anisotropy (FA) were estimated. In phantom, the root-mean-square of Delta B0 in areas with high gradient nonlinearity was reduced by 7 Hz when incorporating actual gradient field in dynamic shimming. Compared to static shimming, dynamic shimming reduced root-mean-square of voxel displacement of each slice by a maximum of 5-10 voxels in single-shot EPI acquisition at 1-2 mm in-plane resolution in phantom, and a maximum of 3 voxels in human brains. Improved accuracy of MD/AD/RD/FA in the superior region of the brain, brainstem, and cerebellum were observed by applying dynamic shimming and/or two-shot EPI acquisition. MD(55 Hz)-MD(0 Hz) showed higher values in T2 FSE hypo-intensity region by applying dynamic shimming. We concluded that diffusion MRI with brain tissue-selective, dynamic slice-by-slice B0 effectively improves the accuracy of diffusivity characterization in high-resolution images.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Human brain high-resolution diffusion MRI with optimized slice-by-slice B0 field shimming in head-only high-performance gradient MRI systems
- Creators
- Patricia LanSherry S HuangChitresh BhushanXinzeng WangSeung-Kyun LeeRaymond Y HuangJerome J MallerJennifer A McNabAnte Zhu
- Resource Type
- Preprint
- Publication Details
- ArXiv.org
- DOI
- 10.48550/arxiv.2510.03586
- ISSN
- 2331-8422
- Publisher
- Cornell University; Ithaca, New York
- Language
- English
- Date posted
- 10/04/2025
- Academic Unit
- Radiology
- Record Identifier
- 9984968455302771
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